The Science of the Winter Olympics

Curious about how those incredible athletes manage such amazing feats? NBC Learn has teamed up with the National Science Foundation to produce Science of the Olympic Winter Games, a 16-part video series that explores the science behind individual Olympic events.

U.S. hopefuls Todd Lodwick and Bill Demong, along with NSF-funded scientists Paul Doherty, and physicist George Tuthill explain principles of physics that are used to get high scores in the long jumps.